Category Archives: Indian curries

Mutton Chukka Recipe – Mutton chukka is a total deliciousness of lamb slow cooked in a rich flavorful masala. Base masala has onions, nuts, aromatic Indian spices, all together makes the mutton chukka blast a fragrance into the dining hall next door 🙂 Your guests, especially if they are non veg lovers or mutton lovers like me, will never want to wait for that friendly chat you are so much interested in 😉 This mutton chukka is an inspiration from the famous Maharashtrian dish – Sukka Mutton. Shared by a Jaspreet ji in a foodie group, the recipe immediately went into my pocket diary. I never miss any non veg recipe from such an excellent cook 🙂

#FoodForSoul – How can I go on without discussing something personal, family, happy gossips 🙂 Read on.. I have something interesting to share..

New kitchen counter capturing fresh sun rays sneaking inside home smile emoticon Someone is feeling honored as if he has built Taj Mahal for his l(i)oving wife 😉

My very own mini studio now, a dream that I asked daddy God in my prayers days ago. And today as I laid my hands on the counter, God whispered into my ears “I will never leave you in the place where you are. I give desires of your heart”. What prayer do you keep on praying that seems to never reach God’s ears? Don worry. If it is a “No” today, it is definitely a better “Yes” tomorrow 🙂

Step 10 – Add the cooked mutton along with its stock. Mix the curry. Adjust salt. Let the curry cook on low heat until the gravy is reduced to your desired consistency.

Switch off stove. Add a dollop of ghee and serve with parathas or rice 🙂 A close up shot for you here to drool 😀

Notes

The gravy is little spicy. So you can adjust chilli powder based on the your tolerance level.
The curry becomes more delicious as it slow cooks and thickens. So, never compromise on that.

Please do try out this awesome mutton chukka and let me know your comments. Your comments help me grow. You can reach out for any doubts via mail or FB msg. Also, do not forget to send a picture when you try them, so that I can feature your creation on my FB page

Your Foodie Adam and Cookie Eve are absolute Kerala food lovers 🙂 5th working day of our every week has Mor Kuzhambu and a Spicy vegetable fry as an accompaniment. Waah, what a nice way to end our busy office slot. This is a absolute tasty mor kuzhambu, easy to prepare, healthy curry to chill your body.

Add water to the beaten curd mix to the desired consistency. Mix well.

Method:

1. Heat a wok or pan. Add two to three tspns of coonut oil. Once the oil is hot, add grated ginger, curry leaves, red chilly, onions one by one. Saute for a minute. Add pinch of hing.

2. Add the chopped veg, turmeric powder, water and let the vegetables cook.

3. Add the curd mix to the wok and let it boil in a low flame for the next 5 minutes. Add salt. Check seasoning and switch off flame.

Tadaaa.. My Favourite Mor Kuzhambu ready… Isnt that very easy ? 🙂

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He could not take his eyes off her. He could read her with one look in her eyes. He stood frozen seeing the precious piece of him in his hands. I know you are puzzled! God gifted my close friend, a cute little baby girl recently. And the glee in his eyes which I have never seen before, flashes in my memory now n then. If you and me admire our baby in this world so much, how much more our Daddy God would admire creating us. For HE says,

you are formed in my thoughts, before you were formed in your mother’s womb.

He created us in HIS own image which means we are an authentic design. No matter what background you have, you are an A-U-T-H-E-N-T-I-C D-E-S-I-G-N 🙂

Here is a delicious sabzi from the tip of India. Yes Kashmiri Dahi Gobi 😉 A yoghurt based gravy with the flavor of garam masala spices. This aromatic creamy curry goes well with rotis. Now to the recipe.
Preparations time : 15 mins Cooking time : 20 mins Serves: 2-3

I flipped through the pages of my pretty old diary, something fell down. It was a photograph that throws a smile at me every time I see it. A frozen moment of me peeping from behind daddy who was taking his daughter for a proud ride on his bike. I closed my eyes to recall those memories imprinted inside. The bike’s unique kick start sound makes me nostalgic ha-ha-ha. Passing through the green pastures of my small native village, wrapping his belly with my small hands; To be honest, I only half-heard all his bike time stories and advices. My focus was all the time on the things that seem like moving fast with me. That old faded photograph just brought back my evergreen fresh memories. Just then Lord reminded me that, Our Journey is just like that bike Journey. Keep your ears open to My words and not to the worldly things that pass by. Nailed, is’nt it ? 🙂

Terrace was happy hosting me & my man, gloomy cold Diwali night. My neck was tirelessly aligned at 45 degrees for less than an hour, swinging like a radar. I stood mesmerized at the fireworks blossoming in flying colors to light up that waxed sky. Sparkling flowers in dazzling shades. That reminded me of what God said in the Bible,

I have a stack of blessings piled up for you. I will open the windows of heaven for you and pour out all the blessings you need

You know what, as a proud daughter of daddy God, Diwali is ON for you and me 365 days, yet I have never looked up to HIM with ‘thaaat’ awe to capture them. Yes! Decide this day, to Pray God-sized prayers and Dream God-sized dreams. Because, the one who promised is ever faithful 🙂

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I am all set for my xmas celebrations mood and compiling selective non veg recipes to mesmerize my guests, “memerize” is too much eh ? 😉 okay! make them ask “wow good how did you make thaat” 🙂 And here comes the dish number 1 of christmas series – Nadan Mutton Roast 😀

Meat tastes the best, when cooked in its own juices. This is a easy, no-mess, one pot recipe which comes out lip-smacking, even if you are cooking a non veg dish for the first time in life. I dedicate this post to one of my favorite foodie group Kannur food guide. Happened to see Soumithra’s recipe, added a marination step, made it for my brothers visit, served with hot rice & sambar. I was one happy soul to enjoy the claps that fine day 🙂 Moving to the recipe..

1. Heat a pressure cooker and add 1 tspn ghee, the ground paste, marinated meat & salt. Mix well. Pressure cook for 3 to 4 whistles on medium flame. Take care not to overcook. Do not add water. Let the meat cook in the juice/stock that seeps out from inside.

2. Heat a non-stick kadai with oil. Toss in few curryleaves and transfer the gravy to the kadai.

3. Cook on high flame until the gravy is reduced to your desired level. Roast it until it is full dry for a dry roast. Switch off the flame.

The roast is extremely juicy and absolute treat with hot rice & sambar, pairs well with rotis too.

You read my thoughts.
You understand my feelings. Yet you do not control!!Oh Daddy God, Well settled are You inside my heart. Mirror was giving a wierd look at me. Still I continued talking ( standing front of the mirror… )
You rejoice when I am joyful getting a recipe perfect. You feel the pain when something hurts me, You comfort me the best. Everything I go through, You go through. Stilll, why do I need to pray to You daddy??
You can list out the desires hooked to every corner of my heart better than I can do!! Then why pray ?!!
Just then, God spoke to me through the message – Why pray if God knows everything by Joseph Prince.

Isaiah 43: 25 -26 says “Put Me in remembrance”. God is Omnipresent ( He is in all places ), Omniscient ( He is all knowing ), Omnipotent ( He is all powerful ). Still God wants to be reminded because God loves for His children to communicate. Prayer is totally totally for His delight/joy/pleasure.

🙂 Here I am now , with the real wanting to pray 🙂 Okayyyy time for Butter Chickennn 😀

Butter Chicken Masala is basically roasted chicken cooked in rich tomato cashew gravy. I have sourced the recipe from Jaspreet ji of one of my favorite food group, simplified the recipe to label it quick-to-make-party-curry with that restaurant taste. This is a definite participant when I feed my guests 🙂

2) Mix all the ingredients under marination and let them marinate in the fridge for 3 hours.

3) Chop the tomatoes into quarters. Add them along with 1/2 cup water into a pressure cooker and cook for 3 whistles. Cool the tomatoes and puree them.

Method

1) Roast the marinated chicken brushed with little oil in a OTG for 25-30 minutes or until their 3/4th cooked. Alternatively you can also add the marinated chicken in a pan, cover the pan and cook it in a medium flame until it is 3/4th cooked. I opted roasting in pan since I do not have an OTG or tandoor.

2) Meanwhile, take a heavy bottomed pan or cooker, Add butter once it is hot. Once the butter is melted, add chopped green chillies and ginger garlic paste. Saute them until the raw smell leaves.

3) Add the tomato puree, sugar to balance the sourness of tomatoes and saute for 1-2 minutes.

4) Add all the spice powders – coriander powder, chilly powder, cumin powder, chicken masala powder and cook in medium flame the mixture until there is a nice oil float.

5) Add the 3/4th cooked chicken along with juice ( if any ) , cashew paste, water ( if required, depends on the quantity of gravy required ) to the above mixture. Give it a nice stir. Check the seasoning and add salt if required. Do not tend to add more water. Less than a 1/2 cup should be fine.

It was a chillax chilling morning. Sky was pouring her love on the land. I had to take a break with my morning walk, however I stood there holding the chilled iron bars of my gate with eyes wide gazing at the lushy greeny crotons near the gate. They were a feet away from me, throwing the aroma of wet land. In a while, the shower stopped and I stepped my feet happily on the wet ground, took a wonderful stroll, enjoyed all the drizzle the leaves had stored to shower upon me; and as I was returning home, I was pulled to the kitchen by the savour of my Mother-in-Grace’s Naatu kozhi kuzhambu.

She prepares a simple but yummy country chicken curry. The taste is simply out of the world. She has been making the curry for almost 30 years now and I know she knows all the tricks to make it yummy. I used my chillax day as an opportunity for knowledge transfer on this authentic village style chicken curry. I have replicated the same and presented you a tutorial here. The curry goes well with rotis/rice/ghee rice. Please do try out and write to me 🙂

Before I go to the recipe, here is something I wanted to share.

Are you tired of the impossibilities and disappointments that you have been seeing in the recent days. Do not lost hope! You have no permission to be hopeless because your Creator is not hopeless about the situation. Continue fast on hopelessness, the destiny is near 🙂

3) Take 10 whole small onions or shallots, Few curryleaves, 1/2 tsp Jeera or Cumin seeds and coarsely grind them and keep aside. This is the secret ingredient and a taste enhancer 🙂

Method:

1) Boil water in a pan or clay pot. Add chicken pieces, half of the chopped small onions, salt to the water. Make sure that the water level covers the chicken pieces and onions. Cover and cook them for 15 minutes.

2) Add red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder to them and cook them for the next 5 minutes.

3) At this stage, add the coconut paste and allow it to boil for the next 5 mins.

4) Add the paste made in step 3 of preparations along with the garam masala to the curry. Allow the curry to boil in simmer for the next 3 mins.

5) Meanwhile the tadka part – Heat a pan with oil, add the remaining chopped onions saute them until they are nice golden brown, add curryleaves and ginger garlic paste. Saute them until the raw smell goes off.

6) Now add the tadka to the curry. Switch off the flame. Serve Hot.

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